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John Wingate (1920–2008)

Autor von Submarine

37 Werke 299 Mitglieder 13 Rezensionen

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Beinhaltet die Namen: Wingate John, John DSC Wingate

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Werke von John Wingate

Submarine (1982) 32 Exemplare
Frigate (1980) 28 Exemplare
Carrier (1981) 21 Exemplare
Warships in Profile, Vol. 3 (1974) 17 Exemplare
Warships in Profile Volume 1 (1971) — Herausgeber — 12 Exemplare
William the Conqueror (1983) 12 Exemplare
Warships in Profile (1973) 10 Exemplare
Sinclair in Command (1961) 8 Exemplare
Go deep (1985) 7 Exemplare
Jimmy-the-One (2021) 6 Exemplare
Below the Horizon (1980) 5 Exemplare
Oil strike (1978) 5 Exemplare
Lavinen (1977) 4 Exemplare
Target Risk (1979) 4 Exemplare
The Sea Above Them (1975) 4 Exemplare
Dodlington House 1 Exemplar
The Windship Race (2022) 1 Exemplar
Dodington 1 Exemplar

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Wissenswertes

Rechtmäßiger Name
Wingate, John Alan
Geburtstag
1920-03-15
Todestag
2008-05-11
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
UK
Organisationen
Royal Navy
Preise und Auszeichnungen
DSC

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A good finale for this series showcasing less known WW2 combat.
 
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jamespurcell | 1 weitere Rezension | Sep 11, 2022 |
A good story about the ugly early days of WW2
½
 
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jamespurcell | Sep 10, 2022 |
Interesting WW2 period in the Mediterranean with kind of wooden characters. I will try the next episode
 
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jamespurcell | Aug 11, 2022 |
I’m a big fan of older thrillers and crime novels, and there’s certainly something kind of neat about reading a WW2 adventure written just 14 years after the end of the conflict. I haven’t been able to find out much about the author John Wingate, but given that the title page puts this letters DSC after his name (short for Distinguished Service Cross, a medal awarded to British military officers), I’m assuming he fought in the war, presumably in the Royal Navy.
‘Submariner Sinclair’ is certainly not short of convincing detail, when it comes to life aboard a fighting ship. Unfortunately, what it is short on is thrills. Despite being packed with incident it’s a devastatingly dull book. Wingate throws his hero, plucky officer Peter Sinclair, into all sorts of scrapes – sea battles above and below the waves, a daring commando mission to rescue POWs – but he does so with prose that lacks any real spark. I failed to connect with Sinclair or the other characters. That’s something that doesn’t have to be a problem in a thriller, but it is a problem when there’s nothing else to grab your attention.
The book very much reminded me of a novel version of one of the ‘Commando’ comics. For the uninitiated, which is probably anyone who wasn’t a boy in the UK in the 60s or 70s, these were a seemingly endless series of one off WW2 comic adventures. I read many of them, but even as a kid I generally found them dull, despite their two-fisted action.
Like those comics, Wingate’s book lacks any nuance or depth. Brits and colonials (Australians and Canadians) are good,Germans and Italians are bad. There’s no grey area on either side, and the Axis troops are constantly dehumanised with racial slurs. They’re referred to by both the Allied characters and narrator as ‘Huns’ or ‘Wops’ almost exclusively. That’s probably not surprising in a low brow war novel from the 1950s, but it is disappointing that nothing was done to correct or at least contextualise the language in this 2021 reissue.
Combining that lazy nationalism with the leaden writing results in a book that fails to be entertaining in any way.

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whatmeworry | 1 weitere Rezension | Apr 9, 2022 |

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Werke
37
Mitglieder
299
Beliebtheit
#78,483
Bewertung
2.9
Rezensionen
13
ISBNs
72
Sprachen
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